loft

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To propel high into the air.
2. (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
3. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
4. (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
5. (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

Noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
2. (countable, uncountable) An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
3. (countable, uncountable) An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
4. (countable, uncountable) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
5. (countable, uncountable) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
6. (US, countable, uncountable) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
8. (countable, uncountable) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
9. (countable, uncountable) A lofted drive.
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A floor or room placed above another.

Adj

lofty; proud; haughty

Sinónimos

attic

garret

mansard

pigeon-house

pigeon loft

ceiling

floor

barn

cloud

☁️

clustering

compose

construct

dovecot

dovecote

draw

draw up

elevation

establish

exaltation

flight

✈️

flock

fly

✈️

frame

gallery

granary

hit

horde

lac

lacquer

lay

lift

lob

pod

school

🏫

shoal

store

studio apartment

swarm

throw

top

🔝

top floor

uplift

upper chamber

varnish

write out

write up

Attic

bakeapple

watch-tower

roof space

Traducións

grenier

soffitta

Dachboden

sótão

σοφίτα

mansarde

zolder

desván

Speicher

golfes

solaio

buhardilla

Boden

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/lɒft/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: lofte

Herdado de Old English: loft

Relativo a Old English: lyft

Relativo a escocés: lift

Relativo a neerlandés: lucht

Relativo a alemán: Luft

In summary

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.